Essays

As an anthropologist and a physician, Farmer studies the relationship between the Haitian people’s beliefs in sorcery and TB to understand the impact, if any on the diagnosis and treatment. He found and has widely written about his belief that …

UNIT 62: 1.1 The Legislation, guidelines, organisational policies and protocols which inform my own role, responsibilities and accountability when monitoring and management the environment and resources are: Infection control policy – Ensure hands are washed using the hand washing technique, …

Nanotechnology is technology used to analyse or perform on a microscopic scale. However, this is not simply a liberally applied distinction referring to smaller sized objects. Rather, it refers to the examination of objects on such a level that they …

Alongside these economic and practical benefits, other benefits to medicine have been identified, included better understanding of living and thinking systems within the scope of the research itself. For instance, Roco states that this can be seen in the utilisation …

Many of us are unfamiliar with the existing nontraditional health care practices. We may have heard about a certain health care practice that continues to cure some of the illnesses today. Some people still hold on to faith that these …

My patient is a Native American dealing with alcoholism. My patience alcoholism started years ago and now is trying to confront his addiction. There many studies in which hypnotherapy has been found to treat alcoholism, and other addictions. When dealing …

The Western hemisphere has long abandoned the used of the herbal medicines due to the advancement of technology and healthcare that is able to provide a single medicine that will cure illnesses. Many people, professional and lay individuals, do not …

Over the past 30 years the idea of dependence or addiction to a number of non-psychoactive substances has been proposed for example – work, sex, shopping, gambling and most recently the Internet. There has been controversy about this application of …

Health services utilization links services capacity reserved for patients with patients need (demand). High patients’ demand increases utilization, the pattern of increases are affected by the capacity of the services such as number of services delivered, number of health professionals, …

The authors are Lori Dorman, Pamela Derish and Judith Cohen. Lori Dorman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Administrative Health Sciences, school of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She is also with the Marin Institute …